I seem to be having an issue applying the rc29 dreaming.nbh, once i get to the screen where it says"press power to update or action to quit", the power button doesnt work niether does any of the buttons, i have to pull the battery to get it to reboot. The buttons do work when the phone is on. Im kinda puzzled. Ive rooted 6 of these G1's with no major problems. This is the first time ive came accross this issue and searched the forums and didnt see anyone else that had the same problem. It sees the dreaming.nbh file, but cant get the power button to work to apply it, the keyboard doesnt work either to press enter or any other button in the blue/grey screen. the sdcard is formatted with 3 partitions as well. It currently has tmo android 1.6, cant figure this one out. Also gave the One-Click-Root apk a shot just to see i could get around applying rc29 and it didnt work either. Any one have any Ideas?
Did you reformat your sd card to FAT32? Mine came as Fat16 which it wouldn't recognize. I had skipped that step since it was already formatted with a FAT filesystem and it wouldn't work until I reformated as FAT32.
Yeah I formatted it with the phone.It sees the file, i just cant get the power button to work while to apply the image but it works when the phone is on.
I have this same problem! Its driving me nuts!
I cant leave the damn screen where it shows Click power for update & action button to cancel. When i update it fails at the end & i cannot leave this screen. I wish to go to my home screen so i can fix the failure..
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Hay i have a rooted G1 with Jf - can't rember what version.
I've been having lots of problems with force closing of various programs but otherwise everything was going fine.
After a few force closes today i decided to restart my phone, turned it off and then back on and stuck it in my pocket.
When i went to check my texts 5 minuets later i took it out and it was just stilling on the 'Android' splash screen - it was moving then freezing for a few seconds then moving (i don't know if that's normal but it wouldnt surprise me).
I took the battery out and restated again and exactly the same thing - it would not boot.
I did a quick search on the problem and remembered how to boot in camera+red mode - which the phone did fine. I then read that pushing green+menu+red would fix it.
I did this and the phone booted, but it lost all my home screen icons and was laid out like when the phone was bought. i then cheked an app or two and they are all still there and seem to have retained their data.
However other strange things are happening - the home button dosnt work, nether does the green, when i hold the red button i only get the 'power off' option not 'power off, silent and airplane' as i used to.
They are the problems i have found so far but there may be more. Basically i want to know what pushing green, menu, red actually does and i want to know what the hell is going on - im totally lost.
Please help
P.S. i did a test on the consol and it seems i still have root assess - just encase that relative
Go to recovery, wipe and reflash. It will solve all your issues.
I can't actually remember how to do that - can you explain more or link me?
and will it have any effect on my apps or settings?
Zippokovich said:
I can't actually remember how to do that - can you explain more or link me?
and will it have any effect on my apps or settings?
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You're going to need to go into recovery; press the home screen button, then the red (energize, end call, whatever) button. Hold both down until you get into recovery, which will be the text menu with all the selections available in green. Then scroll down to "wipe data/ factory reset" and do that- this simply wipes the phones internal memory. Then load the rom you are using, which I assume is already on the root of your sd card. If not, connect the phone, mount the card, and put the rom there before you get started with the above steps- chris
Someone please help me. I have installed HARDSPLV1 and everything appeared to be working, but every time I put a ROM on my storage card as Kovsimg.nbh and enter the bootloader tricolor screen it just says
KOVS100
SPL-0.72.OliNex
MicroP1-787
MicroP2-707
then Serial in the white part
then it says Loading...
No Image File!
What am I doing wrong? I have tried 2 different sd cards and 2 different ROMS with the same result. Someone please help if they can!
Have you unchecked "hide extensions of known files types" in Folder Options and made sure it isn't 'kovsimg.nbh.nbh' ? (I've seen this case, back a few months ago.. the creator of the thread never listened though)
What is the filesize of the rom you've placed onto the SD card(s)?
What was the filename+extension of the file before you renamed it? ruu_signed.nbh or was it some .zip or .rar?
There's other causes of this error, but just making sure the fundamentals are done correctly
Thanks to the above poster for offering his help^
However, I got it working, the problem was I didnt format the storage card with FAT32 prior to putting the Kovsimg.nbh file on it. I discovered you DO NOT need a card reader to do this on your PC. The X1 can act as a card reader when you set the option to disk drive select the disk drive in my computer after connecting the device and Format it with FAT32 there.
One thing though worrying me, I was not able to do a hard reset after installing the ROM onto my device, I tried depressing the two silver buttons while also depressing the power button and waiting for hard reset prompt to appear, but the device simply botted up as normal. Although, everything seems to be working fine without the hard reset. Any advice?
a hard reset is holding those silver buttons on the front and the button at the back of the phone, take off the metal cover and take out the stylus and you will see a circle, stylus covers it the button, hold that button too with the silver ones when on.
Oh word. well I was going by what BioVolt said in his tutorial... he said hold down both silver buttons and power button... but what you said makes sense since that didnt work,
Do you think I should hard reset the device even though the ROM has already been set up and everything seems to be working smoothly?
JoLLAJoLLA said:
Thanks to the above poster for offering his help^
However, I got it working, the problem was I didnt format the storage card with FAT32 prior to putting the Kovsimg.nbh file on it. I discovered you DO NOT need a card reader to do this on your PC. The X1 can act as a card reader when you set the option to disk drive select the disk drive in my computer after connecting the device and Format it with FAT32 there.
One thing though worrying me, I was not able to do a hard reset after installing the ROM onto my device, I tried depressing the two silver buttons while also depressing the power button and waiting for hard reset prompt to appear, but the device simply botted up as normal. Although, everything seems to be working fine without the hard reset. Any advice?
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Even I had this problem of hard resetting my X1 initially while flashing ROMs. Then I found out that the trick lay in pressing down the two silver buttons and pressing the power button and the moment the phone gives the initial vibration, to release the power button. This way, you would be able to get into the hard reset screen. Try this and see.
And yes, I think a hard reset is advisable.
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Even I had this problem of hard resetting my X1 initially while flashing ROMs. Then I found out that the trick lay in pressing down the two silver buttons and pressing the power button and the moment the phone gives the initial vibration, to release the power button. This way, you would be able to get into the hard reset screen. Try this and see.
And yes, I think a hard reset is advisable.
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Thank you for your advice, so you think a hard reset is a good idea even after the ROM is loaded and set up working properly? if you advise this I will do it.
JoLLAJoLLA said:
Oh word. well I was going by what BioVolt said in his tutorial... he said hold down both silver buttons and power button... but what you said makes sense since that didnt work,
Do you think I should hard reset the device even though the ROM has already been set up and everything seems to be working smoothly?
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u have to press both silver buttons and then just press power button once and let it go right away that should do the trick
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a hard reset is holding those silver buttons on the front and the button at the back of the phone, take off the metal cover and take out the stylus and you will see a circle, stylus covers it the button, hold that button too with the silver ones when on.
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hard reset is just pressing 2 silver buttons and pressing power button, but you have to release the power button after the phone vibrates. thats all
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Thank you for your advice, so you think a hard reset is a good idea even after the ROM is loaded and set up working properly? if you advise this I will do it.
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If your ROM is set up and working properly, then there is no need of a hard reset.
I usually flash through the SD Card method. After successful flashing message is displayed, I restart the phone and immediately perform a hard reset. Hope this helps.
^ thank you. Originally when I got the successful flashing message, I took the battery out and tried to do a hard reset. To this day, it hasnt allowed me to do one. instead of going the the hard reset prompt, the device always just boots up normally. Ive tried all different ways, hard reset by holding the two silver buttons and power button, and by holding the two silver buttons and just pressing the power button, hard reset by holding the reset button behind the batterycover with stylus and holding the silver buttons. All the same thing, just get the Sony Ericsson screen and the device starts up. I have spikegotti X1.5 6.5 ROM btw.
I tried looking through all of the threads, Google, & every other method i could think of to find the answer to my question, but i can't seem to find anyone else with my issue.
I was in the process of trying to put the Honeycomb build on my internal memory, when i realized i was never able to get Clockwork Recovery working as it's supposed to. Whenever i select AND option, all i get is a blank screen (image attached). I have tried reflashing the recovery, both manually & through ROM Manager & even flashing it to the SD card (as stated in the Honeycomb tutorial) i'm still getting blank options.
I know my way around Android devices (never had any trouble rooting/flashing my EVO but this seems to have me stumped for now. Don't need anyone to hold my hand through it, just a push in the right direction would be a huge help.
~Thanks in advance.
go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
download the clockwork mod only sd card image
burn the image to your sd card via winimage
mounts and storge format boot/system/data(may crash, just hard reset)
now you should be able to reflash the image of your choice.
EDIT: Didn't see the picture until I logged in. I don't think any of my original post below is helpful for this problem.
Are you using the power key to select and turning the screen off? I've done that on my phone--used power instead of camera, and it turns the screen off. If you hit power again, it toggles the screen back on. Of the top of my head, I don't remember what the select button for the NC is, but the only other option we have is the "n" button.
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EDIT: Didn't see the picture until I logged in. I don't think any of my original post below is helpful for this problem.
Are you using the power key to select and turning the screen off? I've done that on my phone--used power instead of camera, and it turns the screen off. If you hit power again, it toggles the screen back on. Of the top of my head, I don't remember what the select button for the NC is, but the only other option we have is the "n" button.
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Wow i feel stupid. I thought Clockwork on the nook worked the same as on the EVO, with the power button being Select.
FYI to anyone that comes across this with the same problem: Power will clear the screen & the 'n' button needs to be used to select.
Thanks robjective
So I inherited a G1 that looks like its in good shape. But when I turn it on it briefly flashes a boot screen that quickly fades to black.
If I hold down the power and camera button it starts to boot, I let go of the power button and keep the camera button held down the screen will stay lit and I can see the fastboot mode. As soon as I let go of the camera button some other words flash on the screen and it dies again.
I looked through the forum assuming I could quickly fix this and have a new backup phone but this forum is now so advanced nobody seems to be having basic problems like this. And anyone who is still here seems to have lots more experience than me with this particular model of phone. Usually the stickies have an unbrick thread but I cant seem to find it.
I am sure this is something simple but if someone could point me in the right direction, or say the screen is burned out, I its bricked, or whatever you think it might be, I would appreciate it.
After more reading and discussing with previous owner, I think that the Camera and power button puts it into fastboot. (not sure exactly what that is yet)
From there it tries to install something from the SD card but fails.
The SD card contains DREAIMG.nbh and two empty folders. It seems to be trying to install something else besides DREAIMG but it fails so fast I cant catch it.
Is there something else I should place on the external SD card or perhaps a different version of the same file?
The previous owner also told me the G1 had been running CM6 if that makes any difference. ( I know it does on CM7 ).
I can get it to the screen with the three skateboarding androids (engineering spl indication? )but any time I let go of any of the buttons the screen fades right to black, making any further button pushing useless.
Any helpful hints? Anyone? Even a thread you think I should read completely?
I copied the DREAIMG.ngh to the desktop of my computer and reformated the SD card. After I bunch of button pushing and holding I managed to get it to hold on the HBOOT screen without going black. I pushed the trackball down and it reloaded the image apparently. Now it turns on and such but none of the keyboard buttons work and it says safemode in the bottom left corner. I will continue to read and search.
I cant find anything in this forum about safe mode. I am stumped.
The phone will boot and tries to get me to sign up for the gmail account but the keyboard only has the d, e, f, and x keys working.
The emergency dialer seems to work. I dialed my other phone with it and it said its not an emergency number and wont let it dial.
I am pretty sure this is not a lost cause here. There is just something I am missing. Could it be a bad flash from the DREAIMG.nbh?
Would it be possible to download a different image.nbh from someplace and try that?
Anyone have any ideas?
ok what are you trying to do exactly? i think your having trouble because the files on your sd... take them all off and see what happens??
can you boot into recovery? holding home+power??
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ok what are you trying to do exactly? i think your having trouble because the files on your sd... take them all off and see what happens??
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Trying to get a functioning phone is all. I am comfortable fiddling with it , just dont know the process to go through.
I pulled the SD card and rebooted and its the same result. Little grey box in the bottom left that says 'safe mode' and it proceeds to the google account screen.
The touch screen works, and the trackball seems to. but Home and Menu dont so I cant even back out of the sign in screen.
Booting up with home+power gives me the triangle with the ! inside it instead of any kind of recovery mode like I expected.
Like I mentioned earlier, I believe it might be running CM6 but I am not even positive about that. I was told it was.
Any suggestions on my nextstep to get it into some kind of functoning state? I am willing to try anything suggested. New ROM or whatever.
I really thing its something simple, I just dont have any expreience with this model at all.
After more searching I guess the ! with triangle is the first screen of the recovery mode? But pushing Alt+L or Alt+I doesnt do anything.
I am used to the Galaxy S recover mode being all right there on the screen.
So next step would be......?
no wait you get the triangle and the !?? thats good lol that is the stock recovery mode.. so now i know what to work with when you get to that screen you can press alt+L and a list should pop up!!
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After more searching I guess the ! with triangle is the first screen of the recovery mode? But pushing Alt+L or Alt+I doesnt do anything.
I am used to the Galaxy S recover mode being all right there on the screen.
So next step would be......?
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oooo it doesnt do anything?? hmmm
you sure nothing happens? try pushing down alt hard and keep holding it.. than press down on L hard see if a list pops up.. it only like 3 choices..
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you sure nothing happens? try pushing down alt hard and keep holding it.. than press down on L hard see if a list pops up.. it only like 3 choices..
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Nothing, hold down Alt and then press and hold L. No changes.
The other odd thing is now when I do the camera+power combo it takes me to the welcome screen instead of the HBOOT screen. I was going to try reflashing the image on the external SD card and now it wont do that either.
The return+power combo also takes me to the welcome screen now.
The welcome screen is where I want to be except the 'safe mode' seems to be keeping the keyboard from functioning?
what welcome screen? lol
are the keys sticking maybe? lol
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what welcome screen? lol
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First I get the T-Mobile G1 screen.
then the Android guy
then the Welcome to T-MobileG1, touch the android to begin.
That all seems normal to me, except for teh grey box that says 'safe mode' in the corner.
So i touch the android and it moves to the Setting upp your T-mobile G1 screen and wants me to enter my account info, which I cannot do because the keyboard is not funtioning properly. Its almost like the image flash borked the keyboard drivers or something.
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are the keys sticking maybe? lol
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the d, e ,f , x keys are all working so I think its not a stuck key. no other keys seem to work though. nor the menu buttons.
would safe mode mean some of the drivers are disabled? kind of like on a desktop computer?
And if so, how to get out of safe mode?
uhhh i never even been on safe mode.. is the led blue while its on? my advice would be to unroot but you cant get recovery functioning properly so im not sure what to do.. do you know what radio and hboot you have?
does it go to safe mode when you just boot up normally?
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does it go to safe mode when you just boot up normally?
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Yes, safe mode shows in the bottom left corner of the screen when I power up normally.
I should have writen down what radio and such as I saw it displayed when I was in HBOOT and installing the DREAIMG.nbh file but I didnt think to.
Now I am either getting the Welcome to T-mobile screen or the first step of the recovery screen depending on the button combo I use.
But I am unable to proceed to do anything useful.
Hi,
I've been trying to get android up and running on my kaiser the past few days. But it doesn't seem to work.
So I can't install the normal way .
One thing is holding me back, it's my D-pad center button. It's broken .
So I've been trying to install android with Atools, but with no luck . It doesn't run the install-seq.sh script.
I'm trying to install android on SD, using HARET.
Yes I formatted my SD correctly, yes I've but everything in andboot.
What do to? What might be the problem?
Try some of the left side positioned buttons (rocker) !?
Just a guess ...
If it gets as far as needing Dpad centre button, then press and hold on the centre of the screen instead, it has been a few years since I installed Android on Kaiser, but there's no reason it won't still work.